The initial ideas for the band began in 1976 when Toshi and Yoshiki were both elementary age kids. They wanted to play hard rock akin to Kiss. They went through the band names Dynamite (1978-1980) and Noise (1980-1982) before choosing X, which was meant to be a temporary name. It was at this time, around the summer of 1982, when the two boys were old enough to devote themselves to X and make it ...